Karl Bodendorfer, MD
Saturday, 07-Nov-2009 09:21:30 EST

Dr. Bodendorfer hails from Erie, Pennsylvania. His undergraduate degree is from Penn State University and he got his medical degree from Penn State’s College of Medicine. Dr. Bodendorfer trained in ophthalmology at the University of Florida. In 2000, he was hired to be the University of Florida’s first Comprehensive Ophthalmologist. His time was split between the Lake City VA Hospital, where he organized and ran the Department’s Lake City resident rotation, and Shands Teaching Hospital. In addition, Dr. Bodendorfer taught the second year medical student course in ophthalmology from 2001 to 2007. During that time, he won the Faculty of the Year Award in 2001 and the College of Medicine’s Exemplary Teacher Award in 2004. Later that year, Dr. Bodendorfer reduced his time at Shands Teaching Hospital, but continued with his work at the Lake City VA and with the residents. He again won the Faculty of the Year Award in 2007 and has been awarded for Excellence in Patient Care three times by the VA. Dr. Bodendorfer’s special interests include cataract surgery and ophthalmology practice efficiency.
